The mother of the late musician Jeff Buckley, who drowned in the Wolf River in May 1997, had a good reason to turn down Brad Pitt's request to play the singer-songwriter in a biopic years ago.

Written a year after his son was born, Tim Buckley's sad ballad about remembrance was later sung by Jeff Buckley, tying the estranged relatives together.

Born in Anaheim, California, in 1966, Jeff Buckley was raised by his mother, Mary Guibert, a classically trained pianist and cellist and his stepfather, Ron Moorhead. His biological father ...